[NCLUG] In search of a new backup solution

[Paul Hummer]

On 01/17/2011 09:23 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:26:05AM -0700, Paul Hummer wrote:
>> On my old server and backup strategy, I was using rsync on cron. I like
>> rsync, but running it on cron meant that if my system was suspended or
>> not powered up for any reason, I didn't get backups. This usually
>> occurred when I was traveling with my laptop, when I probably should
>> have been the most careful of backing up.
> I'm not entirely clear on what's going on here.  Are you saying that a
> system might be down somehow, and you need to connect to it from your
> laptop to get its rsync cron job running?  Are you saying you want to
> back up your laptop while it's suspended (I really suspect that's not
> what you mean)?

If the cron job runs at 1 in the morning, and my system is suspended at
1 in the morning, I go a day without backups.  Ubuntu seemed to have
some backup daemon it could run that would take the scheduled time, and
try and run any time after that, thus making sure that I get a backup as
soon as my system is available after that scheduled time.

Cheers,
Paul